Resource Bank

This Learning Point considers the intersection between the Essential Instructional Practices for Disciplinary Literacy in Secondary ELA 1, or Literacy Essentials, and MAC’s Components of Equitable Assessment to offer key considerations for student-centered instruction and assessment of disciplinary literacy in secondary ELA.

This guide explains the necessary components and attributes of an assessment system designed to support the development of literacy.

This paper describes two methods for educator evaluation.

This article describes what principals need to know about assessment and how they can support the teachers in their buildings.

The recorded presentation with Ed Roeber, Assessment Director, MAC, and accompanying article Re-balancing Assessment by Hoffman, Goodwin and Kahl set the stage to create a set of prioritized standards and develop performance assessments to embed in ongoing instruction and highlight the benefits of collaboratively scoring student work

Two missions are undertaken in this ThinkPoint essay by James Popham. He says, “Mission One is to convince readers that the single most cost-effective way to improve our schools is to increase the assessment literacy of concerned clienteles. Mission Two is to invite American publishers, chiefly those who publish books or journals dealing with educational testing, to participate actively in promoting a nationwide expansion of assessment literacy.”

FAME Website:  Formative Assessment for MI Educators (FAME) is a professional learning initiative sponsored by the Michigan Department of Education.  This site supports the program and contains many high-quality resources and links.

This Learning Point describes the misconception that results when using the term “formative assessmentS” to describe the formative assessment PROCESS.

This short article by Margaret Heritage summarizes what we know about the potential of formative assessment practice to support and advance learning.